Member advisory committees

Our member advisory committees help develop resources and support for members and help shape Law Society policy on the issues affecting our profession, access to justice and the rule of law – now and into the future.
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Access to Justice Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Richard Owen (chair)
  • Daniel Bonich
  • Jenny Beck
  • Guy Goodings (Council member)
  • Anthony Graham
  • Jasmine Hollis
  • Robert Hush
  • Rohini Jana
  • Nicola Jones-King (Council member)
  • Jawaid Luqmani
  • Cris McCurley
  • Emily McFadden
  • Jacqueline McGuigan
  • Stephane Osborne
  • Ravinder Singh-Chumber
  • Jacky White
  • Paul Yates

Children Law Subcommittee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Naomi Angell
  • Laura Coyle
  • Julie Hine
  • Denise Hoilette
  • Charlotte Image-Flower
  • Shabana Jaffar
  • Keeley Lengthorn (Council member)
  • Lindsey Marks
  • Elaine Webb

Civil Justice Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • John McQuater (chair)
  • Melanie Hart (vice chair)
  • Deborah Burke
  • Amy Clowrey (Council member)
  • Nicola Critchley (Council member)
  • Ed Crosse
  • Brett Dixon (Council member)
  • Nichola Evans
  • Hekim Hannan
  • Charlotte Hill
  • Vidisha Joshi
  • Jeff Lewis (Council member)
  • David Marshall
  • Vlad Meerovich
  • Fiona Meany
  • Nick Parker
  • Jonathan Scarsbrook
  • Elisabetta Sciallis
  • Jonathan Wheeler (Council member)
  • James Whitaker

Company Law Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Lucy Reeve (chair)
  • Robert Adam
  • Emma Clark
  • Edward Craft
  • Simon Currie
  • Patrick Davis
  • Kathryn Devonald-Davies
  • Rhys Evans
  • Emma Grant
  • Ben Griffiths
  • Jaya Gupta
  • Sarah Hawes
  • David Hicks
  • Andrew Jolly
  • Prakash Kakkad
  • James Leader
  • Michael Marelus
  • Alexandra Pitchford
  • Eoin O'Reilly
  • David Pudge
  • Dominic Sedghi
  • Mohammed Senouci
  • Sarah Steele
  • Elizabeth Wall

Competition Law Committee

Who to contact:

Members

  • May Lyn Yuen (chair) 
  • Maria Ouli (vice chair) 
  • Eram Khan
  • Daniel Vowden
  • Sarah Long
  • James Marshall
  • Ruchit Patel
  • Sarah Aitchison

Conveyancing and Land Law Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Mark Sellers (co-chair)
  • Emily d'Albuquerque
  • Dona Awano
  • Michael Draper
  • Philip Freedman CBE KC (Hon)
  • Laura Ford
  • Surekha Gangakhedkar
  • Russell Hewitson (Council member)
  • Warren Gordon
  • Stephen Jackson
  • Peter Rodd

Criminal Law Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Stuart Nolan (chair)
  • Michael Alexander
  • Scott Bowen (Council member)
  • Javed Chughtai
  • Rebecca Crump
  • Matthew Hardcastle
  • Stephen Head
  • Matthew Hickling
  • Richard Graham
  • Gareth Gwyndaf Jones
  • Laura Janes
  • Shelagh Lyth
  • John Moreland
  • Scott Neilson
  • Mark Newby (Council member)
  • Jessica Skinns
  • Peter Hungerford-Welsh

Dispute Resolution Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Ahmed Abdel-Hakam
  • Masood Ahmed
  • Julian Caddick
  • Katherine Harper (vice chair)
  • Jennifer Morrissey
  • Louise Nicholson (chair)
  • Alastair Shaw
  • Leah Alpren Waterman
  • Laura Feldman
  • Greg Hollingsworth (ex officio Council member)

Economic Crime Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Amy Bell (chair)
  • Luis Campbell
  • Richard Carter
  • Susannah Cogman
  • Helen Devine
  • Ross Dixon
  • Robert Drury
  • Lee Edwards
  • Richard Farquhar (observer)
  • Annette Fritze-Shanks
  • Jason Hungerford
  • Sarah Kebbell
  • Nicola Kirby
  • Michael Levi
  • Emma Oettinger
  • Amasis Saba
  • Marcus Thompson
  • Karen Voller
  • Emma Williams
  • Guy Wilkes

Education and Training Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Michael Draper (chair)
  • Harry Clark (JSN vice chair)
  • Fiona Anthony
  • Aneesha Bhunjun
  • Rosemary Keczkes (Council member)
  • Tom Ketteley
  • Dr Omar Madhloom
  • Ben Perry
  • Victoria Roper

Employment Law Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Tarun Tawakley (chair)
  • Afshin Bemani
  • Carla Bennett
  • Shantha David (Council member)
  • Adele Edwin-Lamerton
  • Rachel Ellis
  • Beth Hale
  • Jodie Hill
  • Molly Horton
  • William McKay
  • Sean Nesbitt
  • Daniella Parsons
  • Kate Redshaw
  • Doreen Reeves
  • Emma Wilkinson
  • Max Winthrop

Family Law Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Karen Dovaston (chair, Council member)
  • Roopa Ahluwalia
  • Jenny Beck
  • Caroline Bowden
  • Lisette Dupre
  • Elizabeth Fisher-Frank
  • Elizabeth Fletcher
  • David Hodson
  • Nailah Kausar
  • Keeley Lengthorn (Council member)

Housing Law Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Christian Hansen (co-chair)
  • Sara Stephens (co-chair)
  • Neli Borisova
  • Robert Brown
  • Rachel Olivia Pulley Crowther
  • Sian Evans
  • Paul Gorton
  • Rosemary Keczkes (Council member)
  • Angus King
  • Andrew Lucas
  • Mike Norman
  • Jennifer Phillips

Human Rights Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Tony Fisher (chair)
  • Danielle Cohen (Council member)
  • Michael Imperato
  • Angela Jackman
  • Rosemin Keshvani (Council member)
  • Shoaib Khan
  • Ravi Naik
  • Simon Rollason (Council member)
  • Teni Shahiean
  • Niresha Umaichelvam
  • Aneeta Williams

Immigration Law Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Muhunthan Paramesvaran (chair)
  • Kamla Adiseshiah
  • Bushra Ali
  • Zoe Bantleman
  • Christopher Cole (observer)
  • Joanna Hunt
  • Zoe Jacob
  • Zeena Luchowa
  • Rebecca Kuehler
  • Vina Madhavji
  • Tom Marsom
  • Shahailya Stephenson
  • Nick Webb
  • Richard Young
  • Jessica Yu

In-House Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Luke Corcoran
  • Amanda Gill (chair)
  • Sophie Gould (vice chair)
  • Charlotte Lakin
  • Abigail Stallard
  • Sarah Watt
  • Robyn Sandilands
  • Anthony Kenny
  • Ahsan Khan
  • Eleri Wones
  • Ngaryan Li
  • Christoph Sicking (ex officio, Council member)
  • Graham Jones (ex officio, Council member)
  • Paul Cummins (ex officio, Council member)
  • Matthew Gingell (ex officio, Council member)

Intellectual Property Law Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Giles Parsons (chair)
  • Caroline Bass
  • Joanna Conway
  • Gareth Dickson
  • John Enser
  • Kerry Fitchett
  • Stephanie Hanson
  • Matthew Harris
  • Michael Hawkins
  • Karmen Koh
  • Caroline Korman
  • Roland Mallinson
  • Ben Mark
  • Carolyn Pepper
  • Duncan Ribbons
  • Emma Stopford
  • Ashmeet Wadwa
  • James Whitaker

International Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Eunice Shang-Simpson (chair)
  • Christina Blacklaws
  • Sir Colin Budd (observer)
  • Sara Chandler
  • Pietro Denaro
  • Alexandre Duterque
  • Tony Fisher
  • Ben Giaretta
  • Jonathan Goldsmith (Council member)
  • Tony Grundy
  • Chris Owen
  • Richard Lang
  • James Love
  • Sarah Murray
  • Sergei Ostrovsky
  • Ted Shapiro
  • Tatiana Siakka
  • Steven Sprague
  • Pedro Telles
  • Rafal Zakrzewski

Junior Solicitors Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Rebekah Sutcliffe
  • James Woodhouse
  • Lara Oseni
  • Harry Clark (chair)
  • Rachel Lee-Oldfield
  • Amy Childs
  • Kiera O'Connor
  • Samuel Dimitri
  • Domenica Giorgianni
  • Thorrun Govind
  • Manvir Grewal
  • Katy Boyle
  • Lauren Basham (ex officio, Council member)
  • Reanne Anthony (ex officio, Council member)
  • Sophia Hanif (ex officio, Council member)
  • Martin Whitehorn (ex officio, Council member)
  • Bethany Walker (ex officio, Council member)

Leadership and Management committee

Who to contact:

Members

  • Andrew Allen (vice chair)
  • Sue Bramall
  • James Brown
  • David Gilmore
  • Anna Hart
  • Andrew King
  • Nicky Lloyd
  • Chris Marston
  • David Pester
  • Sarah Sargent (ex officio Council member)
  • Clive Thomas
  • Abby Winkworth (chair)

Mental Health and Disability Law Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Kirsty Stuart (chair)
  • Caroline Bielanska
  • Elizabeth Cleaver
  • Neil Cronin
  • Lauren Crow
  • Sheree Green
  • Chris Ince
  • Alice Livermore
  • Nicola Mackintosh KC (Hon)
  • Jamie Middleton
  • Sophy Miles
  • Jennifer Nwachukwu
  • Camilla Parker
  • Bridget Penhale
  • Dr Zoe Picton-Howell
  • Deborah Robinson
  • Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon)
  • Kathrina Salter
  • Lucy Scott-Moncrief (CBE)
  • Ben Troke
  • Andrew Wigmore

Planning and Environmental Law Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Sebastian Charles (chair)
  • Nigel Bell
  • Heidi Copland
  • Noel Doran
  • Tim Hallam
  • Beth Harries
  • Bernadette Hillman
  • Gary Howard
  • Sadia Hussain
  • Richard Keczkes
  • Peter Kellett
  • Philip Kratz
  • Caroline May
  • Jamie McKie
  • Steve Murphy
  • Hannah Quarterman
  • Lee Saywack
  • Chad Sutton
  • James Thomas
  • Andrew Wiseman

Private Client and Estates Committee

Who to contact:

  • Governance officer: Beverley Emanuel
  • Policy advisor: Charlotte Garvey
  • Membership and engagement manager: Sarah Owen
  • Contact: governance@lawsociety.org.uk

Members:

  • Stephen Lawson (chair)
  • Ian Bond
  • Juliet Brook
  • Blerta Clubb
  • Richard Dew
  • Jade Gani
  • Melinda Giles (ex officio Council member)
  • Byron Jones
  • Helen Forster 
  • Andrew Bishop
  • Paul Clark
  • Chris Claxton-Shirley
  • Charlotte Crawford
  • Elizabeth Gibbison (co-chair)
  • Victoria Newey
  • Sophie O'Connell
  • Sarah Robinson

Professional Indemnity Insurance Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Linda Lee (chair)
  • Michael Garson (co-opt)
  • Guy Goodings (Council member)
  • David Green
  • Christopher Miller
  • Ben Parks
  • Niya Phiri
  • Jenny Screech (co-opt)
  • Fran Shaw
  • Owen Thomas (co-opt)
  • Bikram Virk

Professional Standards and Ethics Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Peter Cadman (chair)
  • Sophie Cisler
  • Tim Connal
  • Natalie Cooksey
  • Claire Duncan
  • Jim Meyer
  • Sarah Steele
  • Craig Underwood
  • Helen Walsh
  • Lucy Wells
  • Andriana Zacharia

Property Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Yasaman Asaad
  • Rita Bange
  • Clare Harman Clark (chair)
  • Nick Dell
  • Warren Gordan
  • Joanne Parsons
  • Anna Russell-Knee
  • Nina Wilson
  • David Keighley  (ex officio Council member)
  • Russell Hewitson (ex officio Council member)

Regulatory Processes Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Peter Steel (chair)
  • Rebecca Atkinson
  • Helen Carr
  • Andrea Cohen
  • Claire Duncan
  • Robert Forman
  • Richard Nelson
  • Julie Norris
  • John Whitehouse
  • Jayne Willetts
  • Sanchia Wheeler

Small Firms Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Parvien Akhar (vice chair)
  • Nazmin Choudhury
  • Priya Dhokia
  • Antony Earl (chair)
  • Emma Egerton-Jones
  • Donna Goodsell
  • John Moreland
  • Nick Woolf
  • Nino Cuffaro (ex officio, Council member)

Tax Law Committee

This committee has a number of sub-groups:

  • Capital Taxes Sub Committee
  • Corporation Tax Sub Committee
  • Income Tax Sub Committee
  • International Tax Sub Committee
  • Stamp Taxes Working Party
  • VAT and Duties Sub Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Lydia Challen (co-chair)
  • Stephen Pallister (co-chair)
  • Sandy Bhogal
  • Jonathan Colclough
  • Jonathan Cooklin
  • Ben Eaton
  • Malcolm Gammie
  • Robert Gaut
  • Heather Gething
  • Alex Jupp
  • Serena Lee
  • Gregory Price
  • Ed Powles
  • Martin Shah
  • Simon Skinner
  • Sarah Squires
  • Nick Thornton
  • Rosemary Todd

Technology and Law Committee

Who to contact:

Members:

  • Kerry Beynon (co-chair)
  • Akber Datoo (co-chair)
  • Sam Clearwater
  • Dorothy Delahunt
  • Jonathan Friend
  • Tim Heywood
  • Eimear McCann
  • Lisa McClory
  • Smita Oza
  • Tanja Podinic
  • Joan Purvis
  • Patrick Skinner